[dini house investigation]

[jcrane]

The rest of the day passes in the usual haze of preparation. Crane makes sure the interns have some idea of what they'll be doing in the basement tonight. Mellark is obnoxious and dim, but he can follow directions and hold a camera. Jonathan entrusts the EVP recorder to Lichfield, thank you very much. She actually seems to understand multi-syllable words. He has Quinzel give them the relevant background information on the house, and corners Lichfield later in the day to ask what sorts of questions she has planned. He likes the answers he gets. Satisfied that the interns know what they're meant to be doing, he checks on the rest of the crew. He hardly needs to; as far from their chosen professions as most of them are, they all do their jobs well. And they've been at this a little while.

In the final swirl of activity before the lockdown begins, Crane wolfs down another sandwich in between filming the last of the introductory stuff in front of the house. And then promptly ditches his tie, undoes a couple of buttons, and rolls his sleeves up. Even if Gotham heat isn't anything next to Georgia, it's still August and warm enough to make Jonathan idly wish he were the sort of person to leave the house in more casual attire from time to time. He gathers his personal set of equipment and sends out some last minute instructions and reminders to the crew. Time to get started.

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[jcrane]

Crane listens to Edward's analysis, mostly filing it away for later. He's sure they'll be reviewing everything very thoroughly, even moreso than usual. The remarks about the other intern, however, get his more immediate attention. And Lichfield's too, he notices. "I believe that can be arranged," he replies, smirking.

Lichfield perks up at that. "Can I watch?"

Jonathan raises an eyebrow at her. "You and half the crew, I don't doubt."

She giggles briefly, but the good humor drains out of her quickly. Lichfield looks very subdued, beyond just the exhaustion. Crane could cheerfully strangle Mellark at this point. The first competent intern they get, and the other intern goes and ruins everything. Great.

[confound]

"Of course," Eddie grins, turning his gaze back over to Lichfield - and she looks... worn out doesn't quite cover it. He furrows his brows. "For the love of god, Lichfield, sit down before you fall over."

It's not a second later that Harley suddenly bounds into the van, and energetically enough one would hardly guess she's missed a night of sleep. Eddie's used to Harleen enough that he doesn't startle much.

"So are we firin Mellark yet?" She chirps brightly, digging into the McDonald's bag until she catches sight of Lichfield. Harley's eyes go a bit wide. "Holy--! You alright?"

[sweet_caroline]

Caroline is mostly focused on not falling over, so she startles a little when Nygma addresses her. Oh right. She looks around, but doesn't see anywhere to sit really, other than on the floor of the van maybe. Well, she could go sit in the back door, she supposes. She glances at Dr. Crane briefly, but he just nods in a vaguely impatient and dismissive manner. Okay.

She's just turning to make her way over to the door when Dr. Quinzel comes bounding in. Caroline almost drops her orange juice. She blinks kind of stupidly at the question for a moment. "Um, yeah. I'm- I'm fine."

[confound]

"I saw how many stitches you got," Eddie says with an incredulous look over at Lichfield. He's fairly sure fine is not a thing she is, right now.

Harley doesn't look entirely convinced, either. She frowns very intently at the blood on Lichfield still. "I'll get ya another shirt, toots, I think I've got a spare in the car."

[sweet_caroline]

Caroline just shrugs kind of sheepishly at Eddie. She's okay, really. Just tired and a little depressed at the moment. She smiles a little at Dr. Quinzel. "Oh uh, thanks, but you don't have to..." She trails off awkwardly and finally goes and sits down, dangling her feet out of the back of the van.

She twists back around in time to see Crane eyeing her thoughtfully. "Would you be willing to wear that," he gestures at her bloody shirt, "on camera? To retell what you just told me."

"Oh! Of course." Caroline is pleasantly surprised at being asked to do anything else after ending up in the ER trying to do her first actual assignment.